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DrPS , 'eS, and every subj , 2ct worthy th e a tt ent i on of the Fashionable 162, Piccadilly, and 22, Catherine -street, Strand. This Number c on t a i ns an original Paper, by the Author of 4 * The Five Nights of St. Allan's," and other distinguished writers. On Friday, May 4th, 1%.11 be published, in 2 vols. Bvo., price 1/. 16s, oth lettered, A HISTORY of PRICES ; with reference to the Causes of their principal Variations, from 1792 to the pr, sent time. By THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S. coNTENTs: On the Effect of the Seasons—On the Effect of War — Or. the C urrency — Historical Sketch of Prices, and of the Circulation, from the commencement of 1793 to 1837—Tables, Appntlix, &c. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Fourth edition, with Parallel References and other impreve.';nents. 3 vols. Bvo. 21. ss. bds. VALPY'S GREEK TESTAMENT, WITH ENGLISI-1 NOTES. Critical, Philological, and Explahatory, irom the most eminent Critics and Interpreters ,• with parallel passages from the Classics, and with references to Viger, for idioms, and Bos, for ellipses. To which is prefixed a short Treatise on the Doctrine of the Greek article, according to Bishop Middleton, Mr. Granville Sharp, &c., briefly and compendiously explained, as applicable to the criticism of the New Testament. The various Readings are recorded under the text. Greek and a:glish Indexes are added. By the Rev. E. VALPY. B. D. Two Plates are added, one illustrative of the Travels of the Apos tles, and the other a Map of Judea, and a Plan of the City and Temple of Jerusalem. This Work is intended for Students in Divinity, as well as the Library. " This Greek Testament is the most valuable of any that has yet been published with critical and philological apparatus, ese cially for Stud en t s w h o w i s h to purchase only ONE Edition."—. Home's Introduction to the Bible." 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Dr. CHALMERS asserted on Friday, as the main principle on which he, giving his full assent to the doctrine of free trade in all that concerns feeding, lodging, and clothing the people, founds the necessity of a national religious Establish ment, that there is no sustained natural desire for reli gious instruction as there is for food. Man will not go forth in quest of Quristianity, said the Rev. Lecturer, and Christianity Tuust go in quest of man. On this assertion it is inferred that there is no natural disposition in mankind to buy the services of parsons as they buy the services of far mers, and, therefore, the State must:tax them for this purpose. It is certainly under a dispensation of the latter kind that our Church exists, and we can Justly infer nothing of the natural disposition in question from the riches of the Establishment. At the same time, it is a fact that great multitudes of poorly fed and poorly clothed people look with no envy, but rather with approbation, on the possessions of our aristocratic Bishops and Rectors, while they declaim against the opulence of landlords and farmers. As a specimen of the wealth of the Bishops, we may observe that the Examiner of Sunday stated that the average personal property left behind by twenty-four Bishops who have died within twenty years was 70,0001. each. We doubt whether Dr. CHALMERS can find twenty-four farmers who in that time have left behind them as much as 70,0001. amongst them all. This i s conclusive evidence of greater fortunes being now made by the occupation of dispensing religious instruction than by th e occupation of feeding the people. We should not, however, be entitled to conclude much from this par ticular circumstance, could not a similar disproportion be tween the manner in which society has paid those who have dispensed religious instruction from those who have supplied it with foed, be traced in all ages. Though the first inventors .)f the useful art were honoured as demi gods, those who practised them were within a very short period found in a degraded or a servile condition. H us bandmen were slaves, while priests were kings. The first lawgivers were religious teachers ; and in the early ages a prophet and a King, or a chief, were synonymous. The leaders of the chosen people—the masters of their war rior kings, belonged to the order of priests, and the promise of a glorious futurity, which has subsequently been held to be typical of universal salvation, as well as the prospect of a land overflowing with milk and honey, tempted them from the flesli-pots of Egypt. The Pharoabs were probably high priests as well as Sovereigns. "In the writings of HOMER," says President GootrET, in his admirable work on the Origin of Arts, "The Kings always did the office of sacrificators. . The Greeks were so thoroughly convinced that the high priesthood could not be exercised but by their Kings, that even in the cities that changed their monar chical government to republican, he who presided over the mysteries and affairs of religion had the title of King, and his wife that of Queen. It:was the same thing in Rome; in spite of the aversion and contempt which these haughty Republicans kept up for whatever bore the nature of King; yet they had at Itume a King of the Sacrifices." " The office of Supreme Pontiff," says Gibbon, " which, from the time of Numa to that of Augustus, had always been exei - cised by one of the most eminent of the Senators, was at length united to the Imperial dignity." It would be id!e, with the tirades ringing in our ears which t7 , -.; Protestants continually pour out against the POPE, to quote one word of evidence of the vast power :::rich the priesthood continued to possess, subsequent to the destruction of that empire in which the office of Su preme Pontiff was merged in that of Emperor. In fact, the Christian priesthood of the dark and middle ages were the true heirs of all the civil power of the Roman Magis-. trates ; and with a short interregnum, the dominion of the Roman Emperors, increased and extended, was revived in the City of the Seven Hills, in the person of the successor of the Apostles. Thus, from the very beginning of history to the last Sunday's Examiner, to the present existence of Lambeth Palace, there is abundant evidence of the craving of the heart of man for religious instruction, and of his being willing to honour and reward, and almost to worship, those beyond any other class of men who undertook to supply it. Dr. CHALMERS'S assertion, that there is no natural desire for religious instruction, and no willing ness to pay a suitable price for it, is positively false ; and if it were true as to Christianity, and if that have, as Dr. CHALMERS asserts, no affinity with the wants and dispositions of man, what can man infer but that Christianity itself is contrary to the order of nature ; that it is some unfounded superstition, which the ambition of the priesthood wishes to palm on mankind? We must, therefore, defend Christianity against the selfish priests who for the mere sake or getting pelf from the State deny its adaptation to the physical and moral constitution of man, From the beginning of time, to the very moment that we write, there has been in every condition of society, amongst the most benighted savages, as amongst the more enlight ened people, a yearning after a knowledge of things un seen ; and Dr. CHALMERS calumniates Christianity, out of greediness for lucre, when he affirms that it is not as well calculated to gratify those yearnings, as the pagan mytho logy of the Greeks and of the Romans, which elevated those who taught it to the highest rank in society. The French Minister of War, General BERNARD, has presented a Report to the Chamber of Deputies, setting forth the extent and commercial advantages of the territory acquired by France in Africa, since the capture of Algiers in 1830. There is much in this document to attract the serious attention of the peo ple of this country—deeply interested, as they are, in 4i f guy, whatever has a tendency directly or indirectly to af:. feet their foreign trade. We believe we need not refer to statistical tables for the purpose of proving that be fore the becupation of Algiers by the trench, the 'ncreliant vessels of litigiand supplied the Arab tribes along the till:ire African coast, not 'citify With the great b'u'lk of such foreign *Arts as they wanted for their own use, but With quantities sufficient to meet the de mond in the markets of the interior. The occupation of Algiers by France proved in itself no serious de triment to British trade. During the first four years after France had obtained a footing in Africa, her commerce, notwithstanding her exclusive supply of the army, did not amount to one half of the general im ports. Since 1835 the consumption of French pro duce has gone on increasing at the rate of seventeen per cent., while foreign commerce has declined at the rate of twelve per cent., and upwards. France now. supplies the commercial entrepots on the African coast with salt meat, dried and salt fish, tar, ship-timber, metals, perfumes, prepared spices, soap and candles, mereery, jewellery, cutlery, fire-arms of all sorts, sad- Tiery, household furniture, including bedding, mirrors, wood-work, crockery, and glass. Of the silk trade eighty per cent. is now in the hands of France; while the Minister boasts that a very few years will suffice to transfer the great bulk of the linen and cotton trade from English to French manufacturers and merchants. Thus, while the general consumption of European ma nufactures has more than tripled on the coast of Af rica, within the last seven years, the trade of British merchants with their ancient customers on that coast has been rapidly declining ; and without some inter vention on the part of our Government there is reason to infer that in a few years more it must cease altogether. General BERNARD makes no secret of the fact that France owes the success of her trade with Africa to the Royal Ordinance of the 11th of November, 1835, which closes the ports in the possession of France to all foreign vessels, except on the payment of duties so exorbitant as to amount almost to a direct prohibition. While the coasting trade is exclusively limited to French vessels, all foreign ships, whether laden or not, are liable to a duty of two francs per ton on entering a French port in Africa, exclusive of pass port dues, and the import and export duties upon every description of freight. Even foreign produce, naturalized in France by the payment of duties, can not be re-exported to the north of Africa on the same footing as a similar description of goods produced in France. The only exceptions are in favour of goods not produced in France, which arc liable to no duty ; and goods prohibited in France, which are only liable to a duty of fifteen per cent., which added to the tonnage duty, cannot be regarded as a powerful inducement to enter into a competition with the fa voured subjects of the most Christian KING. Now, after the great forbearance evinced by Eng land respecting the conquests made by France on the African coast—after the proofs we hare given of an unbounded confidence in the uprightness of the ulti mate designs of the French Government—it is not treating us handsomely to seek by prohibitive laws to fetter our commerce in the Mediterranean. Inde pendently of loftier views, we do not think that it is at all good policy on the part of those statesmen who direct the political destinies of France, to force upon our merchants the unpleasant conviction that the triumph of the French arms is the decline of British commerce—even on the arid coast of Africa. France cannot deny, after her breach of the treaty respecting Algiers, that we have a right to insist upon as good terms at her hands as it is possible for her to give us, consistently with a regard to the interests, not of France, but of the colonists. We trust the intimation thus given will not escape the notice of the President of , the Board of Trade. The chief topic of discussion in the House of Commons last night was the Irish Poor-law Bill, the third reading of which gave rise to a rather smart debate. Sir W. Ban- BAZON moved, as an amendment, that the Bill he read ; that day six months, and was supported in the division which took place by 59 Members against 2.34. A ma jority of 175, involving also a majority of the Irish Members, on a question which has been so entirely divested of all party spirit, that we find DANIEL O'CONNELL presenting a petition from Lord RODEN, must, we think, carry with it considerable weight in the opinion even of that portion of the people of Ireland, who I are represented as hostile to the measure. To argue, as some of the opponents of the Bill did last night, that this is not the measure that Ireland wanted, and to reject it because it does not come up to some pre-conceived standard of perfection, is little less than absurd. We may admit that the measure is defective, without casting much blame upon those who have framed it. A little calm considera tion will serve to convince any one, that the introduction of a Poor-law system into a country where none existed before, must necessarily be experimental. In such a case it is impossible to transplant —you must begin, as it were, by sowing the seed, that the new institution may accom modate itself to the peculiar circumstances of the locality in which it is situated. We arc therefore glad that a be ginning has been made on a scale which, though small at present, is capable of being extended—should it be neces sary—so as to meet the extent of the evil which it is the object of the Bill to remedy. The great principle is now established in Ireland, that the destitute have a legal claim upon the community for support, and we entertain sanguine hopes that the recognition of this claim will produce highly beneficial effects upon all classes of society in the sister island. It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Lord MELBOURNE, in answer to a lamentation from Lord LON DONDERRY about the Coronation, stated that the ceremony would be put off from the 26th to the 28th of June, out of consideration to the feelings of those who might be painfully affected by the recollection of the calamity which the nation sutained in the death of that virtuous Monarch GEORGE the FOURTH. The ceremonial of the Coronation, it appears, will he as nearly as possible the same as that observed on the accession of the late KING—a prece dent to which there cannot he any rational objection made. There will he a procession from the Palace to Westminster Abbey ; and as Lord LONDONDERRY 13 dying with a desire to exhibit on this occasion, we beg leave to hint that the character of Punch would suit him to a hair, and would, we are sure, procure him unbounded applause. -- •••••Q ,y the packet ship Louis Philippe, which sailed from New York, on the evening of the 9th of April, we have received a long letter from Mr. BIDDLE, President of thu United States Bank, to the Hon. J. QUINCY ADAMS, de precating the Bank proposal for the resumption of cash payments in May. The substance of this document —with the observations of our Contemporaries thereupon —will be found in another part of The Sun. A third party has now started in Spain, whose object is not to support the QUEEN or Don CARLOS, but to de fend themselves against the extortions and robberies com mitted by the armies of both. It is only surprising that the people of the Basque Provinces have been so long in adopting such a system. For the last four years they have submitted to every species of suffering which a civil war inflicts. They now see they are as far from their object as ever ; and it is not, therefore, improbable that they will desert entirely the cause of Don CARLOS, and look only to their own interests. In most of the mari time provinces a somewhat similar system has been adopted. All the money raised by taxes or customs is ex pended in each province. Neither the QUEEN nor Don CARLOS receive tribute, except when enforced by military law ; and the authority of the Central Government is set at defiance in almost every spot not occupied by the army. It is probable, also, that the Biscayans will go a little further, and like the bands of GOMEZ and BA smo plunder for themselves. Next to the interference of the great Europeon powers such a result is the most desir able. We despair of the people settling their own differ ences—patriotism has fled from that unhappy country, and TECH SUN, LONDON_, TURSDAY, MAY 1, r-3S to all appearance the different particswill goon Warring With each other till foreigners are compelledto interfere for the sake of humanity, and put an end to a public nuisapcp. Nmp Was such a case for foreign interfe7 . .. - mane out es Spain now, 49 r ci " peddling system which France and liug!and have carried on EO long, has had no other (ffect than to prolong the war. We believe, both Governments begin to %jos- the subject in that light, and we arc, there fore, inclined to believe the report, that the English Cabi net have come to the determination of making no further sacrifices under existing circumstances. Unless the KING of the FRENCH is resolved to co-operate sincerely, it is the best determination Lord PALMERSTON can come to. It would have two good effects. It would save the country the expense of furnishing more supplies of muskets and ammunition which will never be repaid, and it would put the people of England and France completely on their gu,:rd against those who are now scheming to rob them. Lord WINCHILSEA, without abating one jot of his cre dulity, has changed the object of his too ready belief. He was formerly duped by the Standard ; but the lesson he was tltight by the exposure in Mr. O'CoNNELL's case, if it have made him mistrust the Standard, has only induced him to open his cars the wider to the syrens of the Bull and the Times. The poor Lord, unable, apparently, to sten] alone, must of necessity have somebody to lean on, and the Standard crutch having broken under him, tumbling him into the mud, he is now trying to get out by the help of these two other crutches. All the questions which he put last night to Viscount MELBOURNE were suggested by these two Journals, unless, indeed, the Noble Lord can be considered as the author of the leading articles of the Sunday and the daily Journals. An avowal of such authorship might, however, be dangerous to the Noble Lord, throwing suspicion on the authorship of the Standard's falsification, and making the world doubt whether the Noble Lord were the dupe or the duped. We wholly acquit him of either fabricating the falsity inserted in the Standard, or of writing the attacks on Mr. TURTON, which have appeared in the Times and the John Bull. For that, the noisy Lord has not enough wit, and the questions he put last night to Lord MELBOURNE, like the calumnies against Mr. O'CONNELL, to which he gave currency in the House of Peers, were borrowed from the leading columns of a Tory Journal. To be prompted by the brickbat Times is possibly the lot of other Peers, and other great per sonages, as well as of him who was once called mad FINCH HATTON. The Paris Journals of Sunday are wholly occupied with the trial, and, we are happy to add, acquittal of the Na tional for a libel upon the Duke of ORLEANS. The AT TORNEY-GENERAL conducted the prosecution, and, to the disgrace of the Bench, M. BASTARD, the President, dis charged the functions of an advocate for the Crown, instead of fulfilling the sacred duties of a Judge. Nevertheless an honest Jury was found, by whom the Editor was acquitted amidst loud acclamations. This trial places the Duke of ORLEANS in a no very enviable position, as the verdict of the Jury is tantamount to a judicial decision, that the Princes of the Blood have virtually usurped the rank which they hold in the army. By a letter from Bayonne of the 26th ult., we learn that I\luNAGoaal's expedition for the pacification of the Basques has little or no chance of being successful. IlurovEa, APRIL 23.—T0-day only twenty-nine Members were pre sent in the Second Chamber. Now, as thirty-seven is the smallest num ber that can legally take any resolution, nothing could be proceeded with, except the reading of a,Cabinet letter, of the I Ith inst., on the publishing of the proceedings, according to which his Majesty has been pleased to allow that, for the present, an abstract, as concise as possible, of the substance of the more important discussions may appear ii the journals of this city; but that individual speeches are never to be inserted. The Cabinet has not sanctioned the re-election of M. Von Hohnstadt . on account of his well-known declaration in the Chamber; but has called on the electors to make a new election, adding that the election may take place, though only a single elector should appear to vote. The Hanover Gaxette gives a statement of the revenue of the kingdom for the year ending in July 1837, from which it appears that The total revenue was lixdollars 6,306,173 The expenditure... Giving a surplus of Letters and papers from Madrid to the 22d ult. inclu sive, have been received. On the morning of the 21st the Infante Don FRANSCISCO DE PAULO left Madrid with his family, escorted, by SOO troops of the line. His departure will not tend to improve the aspect of affairs in Spain. By the Senate his Royal Highness was treated with insulting arrogance ; and had it been the wish of the Government to drive him into open rebellion, we presume it must have acted towards him precisely as it has done since the adop tion of the Constitution. As for the Regent, she is re ported to be dangerously ill, in consequence of the scenes witnessed during her late interviews with her sister. They are altogether a very hopeful family. The Castellano of the 21st contains the following disma intelligence : " Torremilane, April 11. . _ " Yesterday the factious again re-entercd the Almaden mines, and we believe completed the ruin of the establishment. There appear to have been no more than 40 of them, while it is said the reserve reckons 7,000 men (consumes 7,000 rations), and is within two days' journey of this place, without preserving so important a treasure. The country around is;.completely ruled by the forces of Charles V., and as Alcudia possesses at present so many flocks of merinos, the factious have abundance to subsist on. One of the Editors of the above named Journal has been arrested and placed in solitary confinement by order of the Government ; but the arrest preceded the publication of the quoted paragraph, which has not been contradicted. M. AGUADO is stated to have withdrawn his proposals for the New Loan. It was likewise rumoured that M. MEN.. nizaeaL had been placed under the surveillance of the police, and forbidden to quit Madrid without leave of ab sence. The charge preferred against the Ex-Minister is that of having betrayed financial state secrets. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. Our Contemporary the Morning Post has published in a Second Edition, the following brief but important commu nication, conveyed by a special messenger from Calais. We are not at this moment in a condition to pronounce any opinion respecting its authenticity : " CALAIS, MONDAY AFTBILOON,—SinCe the bags were closed I have i learnt that a me ssenger h as arr i ved f rom Be l g i um, b r i ng i ng the n'elli.. Bence that Luxembourg has separated itself from that country." DUTCH FUNDS.—AMiTERDAM, APRIL 27. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per 'ent Nth, ditto 5 per cent. A lima Syndic, 4% per cent ll3 95a Date, ditto, 13% per cent 7ll 79 1 4 Commercial Company, 4', per cent lB4 155 Ditto (1532 and ;833) 5 per cent. Loan 1530, 4 per cent. — Ditto 1537, (1 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 17% Two months The improvement of the navigation of the Severn from Gloucester is now fully determined on. Owing to the backwardness of the season, cattle arc beginning to suffer severely from want of provender, the stock of hay bring, in many places; nearly exhausted. There is exhibited in a cutler's window not far front the Burlington Arcade a novel kind of instrument, something between a stiletto and an oyster knife, ticketted " French defence knives." The thing is altogether so un-English in its character that we trust it will be immediately exploded. _ . " Ere long," says the Augsburg Gazette, " the Lake of Constance will be navigated by nine steam-boats; the steam na vigation companies of Wurtemberg, Bavaria, Baden, and the town of Morsburg having ordered five new vessels to be built. The Swiss Can tons arc too prudent to enter into a competition with these companies, but will join with such of them as obtain the best success. The im. provements of the ports of Constance and Morsburg we going on very rapidly, and the proposition from Austria that free access to all parts of the Lake should be granted has met with a favourable reception from all p lites interested." TILE LAW AGAINST GOOD TRADE I—At pres e nt i s so plentiful in England, that the rate o f i nterest is only about money two, or two and a half per cent. Workmen are so numerous, that in competing for labour, they have reduced wages, in many places, to the starvation point. The winter has been one of the worst that our manu facturers have seen for many years; and yet there is every prospect that trade will be still more depressed in the ensuing summer. Simpletons sit with their hands in their pockets, and wonder when these evil days di T in h c e ul p t r Y ice of best wheat in proving that will come to an end . Men willg o o n d ev trade. erbe much better, so long " But there is no such law," exclaim the simpletons. Not under that M th e e n re o is f at London this week is 68s. per quarter. The price of best wheat at Hamburgh is 335. iffel. per quarter. Were our manufacturers allowed there njm e' i is e a r law haP '; which but w o ueght shallto b h e a'' so e christened. t e littlen ed. freely to exchange the goods which glut the home market for wheat at Ilamburgh, there would neither be surplus labour nor surplus capital from one end of the island to the other. There is a law which pre vents the merchant from using his capital in that manner. That law was passed by the Landowners' Union ; and let them call it by what name they pleas*, it is virtually a " Law against G oo d • frade."— Bullon Free Press. INGENUITY—In the reign of Catherine the Sc. cond, Kulibin, a Russian peasant, had the ingenuity to project a bridge to be thrown over the Neva. It was roofed over, and towered a hun dred and sixty-eight feet above the water, the road not being carried over the arch, but suspended in the middle below It. Kulibin was mu. sical as well as mechanical, and he invented what he called a " chaunting watch." This little machine was about the size of an egg ; within It was represented the tomb of our Saviour, with the stone at the entrance and the sentinels on duty. A spring being pressed, the stone would tie suddenly removed—the sentinels would then fall down--the angels ap pear, the women enter the sepulchre, and the same chaunt be accurately performed which is sung on Easter-eve. This watch, deemed so curious at the time of its invention, was deposited in the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg, and is supposed to have suggested the idea of the present musical time.pieces. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (Tiffs' DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. . • - --4 stock Exchange, conse. ibis is a holiday both at the -Thom • re quent ly both are closed, and no business doing in either of Inn sorts. Up to the present hour business is very dull in the City. American Papers to the 10th have been received by the Louis Philippe, which arrived off Falmouth. The contents of the above papers are not of much importance. They contain a copy of a letter from Mr. Biddle, the President of the United States Bank, addressed to John Quincy Adams, upon the subject of the resumption of specie pay. moots The above letter will be found in another part of the paper. The Exchange from New York comes 4, prem.; United Bank Shares, 113 k, No news in them from Canada. From the New York papers of the 9th of April:— " lltsraotr, MARCH 29.—Great excitement prevails here on the sub ject of the currency. The unchartered institutions that have come into operation under the great banking law, are, many of them, In a rotten condition. They have extended their issues so fir, that, in many instances, the assets and securities will go but little way towards discharging their responsibilities. The Bank Commissioners reported yesterday to the Legislature six institutions again ;t which injunctions have been issued for malpractices. They have also cautioned the pub lic a3aiiist receiving the notes of several others. Doubtless many of these banks are sound, but all confidence in them is now gone." " BUFFALO, APRIL 2.—The navigation of the lakes have been open for the last six days. We had a departure yesterday— the revenue cutter—and two arrivals to-day. All frontier troubles in this region have ceased, and quiet, if not good feeling, is again restored." Canton Papers have been received this day to the 3d of January. We extract the following commercial remarks :—" British Manufactures — Recent transactions have been but on a moderate scale, and prices re main without any ♦ariation. Opium—The supplies at Whainpoa are beComing more general, but we understand the sales are less brisk than they were, and prices not so favourable. Reports of seizures are fre quently in circulation, no doubt much exaggerated. We do not hear of any particular deliveries outward, or at Macao, where the market is very dull." _ _ _ HALF-PAST ONE. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date, bring ing the Amsterdam prices of the 28th April : Two.and - a.Half per Cents. i 44 ; Five per Cents. 1014. From Canton Paper received this morning:—" OPIUM.—We are assured on the best authority that there is not the slightest foundation for the report which we quoted in our Paper, that the Board of Opium intended to reduce the cultivation of the drug. On the contrary, we are informed that it is intended to raise the Bengal produce to 25,000 per annum within the next three years, so that speculators may calculate upon an increased supply, unless a failure of the crop should take place." The bad state of the weather, with the Stock Exchange being closed, has scattered the jobbers and speculators in the funds in all directions, to take shelter. They have resorted to the various coffee-houses and chop-houses round the late Royal Exchange. Up to the present time we do not hear of any transactions in the funds worth notice. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DaAL, Aram 30.—Wind W.S. W., fresh breezes.—Arrived and pro ceeded for the river the Asia, Stead, and Mermaid, Chapman, from Bombay; Bengalee, Hamilton, from Calcutta; Rosalind, Crouch, and Frances Ann, Hay, from China; Wanstead, from Honduras; and Rio Packet, Dench, from Bahia, for order. Came down from the river and remain the Dispatch, Wood, and John Renwick, Byron, for Sydney; Nautilus, Newcomb, for Hobart Town; Eagle, Stevenson, for St. John's, New Brunswick; Boadicea, Stephens, for Quebec; and Spartan, Moyse, for Algoa Bay. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind W.S. W., fresh breezes and fine. — Arrived the Oak, Wilson, from Rouen; her Majesty's ship Andro mache, from the Eastward. Mem.—Her Majesty's ship Madagascar is gone out of harbour to Spithead. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Wind N.E. to W. FALMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Wind variable, light breezes and fine.—Ar rived off port the Perthshire, Jamieson, from Calcutta. The Planet, ar rived yesterday from Palermo, passed on the 19th inst., in lat. 44. 59. N. long. 18. W., a large Bremen vessel, with a white flag and a figure of S in the centre. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 3 0.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrived the Chilton, from Paraiba; Fanny Ann, Garrcgues, from Jamaica ; Columbiana, Harriet, Stroud, and Kensington, from New Orleans. Arrived off port the Garland, from Maranham ; Mountaineer, from Laguna ; and Water. witch, from Trieste. Cowes, APRIL 30.—Arrived the Ariel, Strickland, from South Seas. WATRRFORD, Aram :a—Arrived the Kilkenny (steamer), London. CoRK, APRIL 28,—Arrived the Nonpareil, Mills, from London. HULL, APRIL 30. Arrived the Resource, Schultz, from Memel ; the Anaschariaz, Diercks, from Hamburgh, 'put in here after being on shore. HUMBER, APRIL 30.—Arrived the Lise.te, Beyer, from Rostock YARMOUTH ROADS, APRIL 29.—The Echo, Stehr, from Hamburg!). BREST, APRIL 26.—The Glen Isla, Watkins, from London to the Cape of Good Hope, which was driven on shore 0..1 the 17th inst., is gone to pieces, and great part of the cargo lost. BRIDLINGTON, APRIL 29.—1 t has been blowing a gale from the N.E. for more than a week, but is now calm. The Champion, from Sunderland to Yarmouth, sprung a leak last night, and run on the beach near here and sunk. At low water part of the cargo (coals) was thrown over, the leak stopped, and she was got off' and into the harbour. A large fleet of colliers, and four large foteamers for Scotland, arc riding in the Bay. The Crescent, Bence was assisted into Penzance, much damaged, and very leaky, bound to Liverpool. The Susan and Ann, Barnes, from Ipswich to Lubeck, wan stranded near Thisted, 21st ult., crew saved. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Butchers' Meat in fair supply, but the morning not favourable to trade. Beef 60. to Bd. ; Mutton 7d. to Bd.; Veal 7d. to 9d. ; Pork 60. to Sd., all prime meat. Fish fine and reasonable—Turbot 4s. and ss. to I 2s. and 13s. ; Soles Is. to 3s. per pair ; Cod 2s. to fis. 7s. and Bs. and higher ; Lobsters dear. Vegetables continue to improve; this is, however, a retail market. Hay and Clover range from 88s. to 1 155., and rather higher, according to quality. CITY FISH MARKET. To-day there was a fair supply and a fair business. Turbot 5s to 15s ; Cod, Is and 25 to 12s ; Soles dear, for good ones Pd to 3s per pair ; Lobsters still dear, and some as high as (is to 7s each; Salmon, Is 4d to 2s per lb.; Mackerel, 4d to Gd each, for good. HAY MARKETS. Supplies today were moderate, but the demand continues good— prices much as they were :—Meadow Hay, 85s. to 100 s. ; Clover ditto, 100 s. to 1155.; Straw, 38s. to 445, PRICES OF POTATOES AT BERMONDSEY. GREAT MARKET. During last week the arrivals from all parts were 715 tons only. Prices rule as follow : York Reds, 100 s.; Kidneys, SOs.; American Natives, 60s. ; York Shaws, 70s. ; Scotch, 80s. to 905. ; Devons, 80s. to 905.; Jersey and Guernsey Blues, 80s ; Kent, Essex, and Suffolk Whites, Sys. to 605.; Kent and Lynn Pink Kidnies, 80s per ton. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. has declined to 495. on the spot, and is 445. 6d. to 455. for de livery, with scarcely anything doing. C AL MARKETS. These Markets are no w in LONI a state of great uncertainty as to prices, and there is no knowing what a sale may bring forth—we are led to hope that this is their turning point, but this remains to be seen. There was yesterday and on Saturday a better disposition shown to purchase, and the sales to-day were rather heavy. They consisted of a large public sale of Barbadoes Sugar, 7,433 bags of Mauritius Sugar, some Brazil and Berbice Coffee, Pimento, Pepper, and Saltpetre. Sugar was selling at firm prices when we left, and there appeared to be an impression that it would be higher. Saltpetre was not lively. Spices remain much as before. There ap pears to be no alternative left to the buyers but that they must come into the market ; their stocks must be very low. Cinnamon fetches at public sale rather more than it did at last public sale, and sells with more spirit. Coffee to-day 1,213 bags Bra zil, 150 cks. Berbice, 18 els. and 42 brls. 8.P., and 100 bales Mocha sold rather Bather flatly and but in part; prices were, however, firm. The Tea that sells now fetches about sale prices, and so do the f..yiv sales of Indigo that take place. Refined Sugar is firmer, and fine crushed is 34 5. On the whole we may say that there is a little more business doing in Colonial produce than for some time past. The Imposts now are not heavy. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. 44. Acair's l9 6 flute's 'Penfield Moor 2l Burdon -'2 6 Dean's Prim rose lB 3 fiaresffeld lB 6 Ord's Redhug.l) Pontop Windsor 2O 0 South Hartley l9 9 Pantield Moor 24 0 Townley l9 6 wiliington 22 9 Mr;larn 2l 3 Walls End Heaton 23 0 Walls End Kill:ngworth 22 0 Walls End Nrwmar-la 29 6 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Urpeth - 18 6 Walls End BraddylPs Heaton 23 9 Walls End Haswell Ship: arrived since . ET. A pri I 30., . - - er fon. r. d. Walls Fnd Hetton 23 9 War; End Larnbtoo Walls End Russel's Iletton 23 9 Walls End Stewart's 23 9 %Valls End Ilartltp,ol 23 9 Dixon's ButtorknOwl Walls End Adelaide Walls End Flinteff Tees Wails End Gordon 6 Walls End Nevin's Tanfielil iS 6 Walls End New Tees Walls End South Durham '22 6 Walls End Tees Wails End Victoria Tees 22 6 Wall End West Hetton Walls End West Tees 2O 6 Cowpen 2O 6 Howard's Netherton Main last market-day. lit. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Aran, 30. We continue to experience a very good demand for Cotton. The sales of this day were very large fully 8,000 bags having been taken off the market at fully the prices last quoted :-0,800 Americans, .4 8 ; 50 Egyptian, ; 350 Fenian), 8 91 ; 400 Surat, 45; ; 400 Bahia 7; 71. Total 8,000. " 13 , le,,' )entiey's Miscellany" for May contains a mas ,:erly piece of humour from Ingoldsby, called " The Lay of St. Nicholas," which every body should read. Cruikshank's illustration of it is worthy of this great artist. It is not generally known that Lablache is the present instructor of her Majesty in singing. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.--A girl named Eliza Stephens was on Sunday evening discovered on the Sandling-road in a state of insensibility, which is supposed to have been caused by having taken some deleterious preparation. Picees of tobacco pipe had also been thrust into her mouth, and when she was brought to the shop of Mr. Allen, surgeon, of Maidstone, she remained an hour before she be came conscious of her situation. She then ejected from her stomach two pieces of tobacco pipe, of the respective lengths of an inch and half an inch. Other pieces remained in her throat, and were forced into the stomach to prevent suffocation. We do not hear that any per son has been apprehended for this superlatively brutal outrage.—Kent Herald. THEATRICAL PROSPECTS IN AUSTRALIA We are happy to find that• that industrious and meritorious artist, Mr. Meredith, by his active management, has opened the present campaign with every prospect of complete success. The arrangements made during the recess" for the accommodation of the respectable inhabitants enable them, with their families, to enjoy the intellectual entertainments of the theatre with comfort and convenience. The company, which is highly effective, work well together, and the orchestra, under the scion. tific management of the veteran M'Cleod, affords to the lovers of har mony much gratification. We trust that the theatre, now that it is so respectably conducted, will receive the patronage of a liberal public.— Australian Review. The adjourned discussion on the merits of the New Poor-law, was resumed on Tuesday evening, in the theatre.—Bolton Free Press. A meeting is to be held in the Assembly-rooms, Edinburgh, on Friday, to memorialise Government on the subject of endowments for the religious destitution in large towns. CANADA.—It is rumoured, under date of March 26, f ro m Nova Scotia, that there are appearances within the Vermont frontier of the United States which have given Sir John Colborne no small uneasiness, and induced him to send for more troops—in fact, for whatever could be spared from the provinces south-east of the St. Lawrence. The 93d, just arrived out, was to proceed in the Pique frigate as far as the ice would admit of, and then the regiment was to be passed on in steamers towards Quebec. A considerable assemblage of republicans on the Vermont side of the line, for the declared pur pose of attacking Lower Canada, is stated to have been the circumstance which chiefly engaged the British General's attention; at the same time it is necessary to add, that facts have transpired which impose upon the Ministers of Queen Victoria the duty of requiring explanations from the President of the United States more full and satisfactory than any which have yet heal demanded or afforded.--Morning Paper. MAGAZINE DAY 13LJtCIt 0 0 S MAGA ZeNE. Our limits are so tithisual.iy restricted that we must make short work with the magazlaes title month. Blackwood excellent Number. His Tomliins Redi quizzical, ::::ount of th e f rea k s o f' a 17' tures out . . vivus" gives a rare man of a literary turn of mind. The art;;Ac is of a political character ; but is so good-humoured, that it is impossible for even the most thin-skinned Liberal to take offence at its satirical drolleries. " Ott the supposed Sensibility and Intelligence of Insects" is a curious entomological essay, Wherein we are told that the oyster is " void of sensibility," so that the old story of his having been crossed in love is a.merc " popular fallacy," notwithstanding that we have the high and grave authority of the late John Reeve to the contrary. " Father Tom and the Vope is a broad Irish extraVaganAa 3 whose diliogue, given in the low Irish dialect, abounds in the most riotott3 and farcical humour. " The sketches of Modern greece," which are a continua tion of a series of papers that have eppeared from time to time in Maga, convey a vivid idea of state of that country under the present Government of Otho. We hope these sketches will be carried on, for the information they contain is for the most part new to us. We have no space for extracts, or we should select one from it. In the " Arabian Empire" there is much eloquent and even im passioned writing, but the article generalizes too much. - There is nothing to lay hold of, or to grapple with, beyond some gracefully turned paragraphs, modelled on the style of Burke. In the lively essay entitled " Our Two Vases" we find another fine poem on the subject of Napoleon, from the pen of Mr. Symmons, who writes on this stately theme more impressively than any man of the day. There is also a delightful little gem called " Wee Willie," by Mr. Moir of Musselburg. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. We have here a capitalbridad‘Oi;.l:e --- oler time," from the pen of Thomas Ingoldsby, who in this class of compo sition has no rival among the writers of the present times. Something there is in his manner which reminds us of Southey ; but he has an infinitely greater fund of rich, racy humour, and at least equal grace and facility of versification. The " Lay of St. Nicholas," with the quaint, homely moral to be educed from it, is as clever as the il lustration of it by George Cruikshank, and we know not that we can give it higher praise. We give a specimen of its humour—a description of a jolly dinner given by a Lord Abbot to the Devil, who has sought his hospitable roof in the disguise of a beautiful young damsel of high degree : " The turkey and chine they were done to a nicety; Liver, and gizzard, and all were there: Ne'er mote Lord Abbot pronounce Bencdicite Over more luscious or delicate fare. " But no pious stave he, no Parer or Ave, Pronounced, as he gazed on that maiden's face She asked him for stuffing, she asked bins for gravy, And gizzard; but never once asked him for Grace! " Then gaily the Lord Abbot smiled and prest, And the blood red wine in the wine-cup fill'd ; And he help'd his guest to a bit of the breast, And he sent the drumstick, down to be grill'd. " There was no lack of old Sherris sack, Of Hippocras fine, or of Malmsey bright; And aye, as he drained off his cup with a smack, Ile grew less pious and more polite. " She pledged him once, and she pledged him twice, And she drank as a Lady ought not to drink ; And he pressed her hand neath the table thrice, And he winked as an Abbot ought not to wink. " And Peter the Prior, and Francis the Friar, Sat each with a napkin under his chin; But Roger the Monk got excessively drunk, So they put him to bed, and they lock'd him in ! " The lay.brothers gaz'd on each other, amaz'd ; And Simon the Deacon, with grief and surprise, As he peep'd through the key hole, could scarce fancy real The scene he beheld, or believe his own eyes. " In his ear was ringing the Lord Abbot singing— He could not distinguish the words very plain, But 'twas all about `Cole,' and 'jolly old soul,' And ' Fiddlers,' and ' Punch,' and thing, quite as profane." Cruickshank has illustrated this legend in his most gro tesque manner. The sketch of the vicious St. Nicholas giving his name-sake of Tophet a kick on his seat of honour, and so sending him headforemost through an open window, is irresistible. The specimens of " Swiss popular and national Poetry," are gracefully translated, and will amuse many readers. The story of Mr. Noddy and his misfortunes is a lively trifle. Dr. Maginn's " Polonius" is scarcely so ingenious as some of his other Shakspeare Papers ; nevertheless, it is superior. to Hazlitt's hasty notice of the same character. Boz, in his present chap ters of Oliver Twist, gives us some serene, quiet pictures of English rural scenery, and a mast diverting anecdote, related by a Police Officer, of some of the sayings and doings of his old acquaintance, Conkey Chickweed—an expert cracksman, whom Jonathan Wilde would have been proud to have enrolled among his gang. The " Legend of Walter Childe" is evidently the production of a practised hand. It is neatly versified, and some of the thoughts are as ingenious as any contained in Whistlecraft, but the poem is too much spun out. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " Notes on Early French Actors"—though the Memoirs are neatly written—will, we suspect, be interesting to few, save those of the profession. The Author gives biographi cal sketches of the most celebrated Harlequins in France, and among others of the famous Antonio Vicentini, who flourished under the auspices of the Regent Orleans, in 1716. "In the hands of this artist," we are told— " Harlequin achieved a higher reputation, and put in claims to greater distinction, than any of his predecessors. He was endowed by nature with capabilities which elevated him to the first rank of comedians. His versatility, his indomitable gaiety, his irresistible grace, his sudden pa thos, even amidst the peals of laughter excited by his tine buffoonery, a trait, a single touch, which he heightened into a positive sentiment by the magic of his genius, would draw tears from his audience, and astound his author by an unexpected and unintended excellence; and all this he woold effect, despite a mask, formed, it would have seemed, as much to excite terror as laughter. Often when he had surprised the audience into bursts of merriment by the exquisite humour of his grief, he would stop short in his burlesque, and charm them into tenderness, into sympathy, by the mastery and cunning of his passion." An actor who could produce all these exciting effects, without opening his mouth, and with a Harlequin's mask on his face, must certainly have been a prodigious genius— in short, quite a miracle! The " Compact" is a horrible account of a novel duel, the terms of which were, that the two parties should draw lots, and that lie who lost, "should kill himself, just one year from the day on which they had quarrelled." This story is of a very maudlin, exaggerated character, and is evidently of French manufacture. The . " Great Western Jungle," is a clever sportsmanlike sketch, worthy to have been illustrated by Daniel. '• Lunacy in France," is from the pen of Mr. Carne. It furnishes us with some affecting details of insanity. The " Manager's Note Book," is a sketch of that hearty old Comedian, Jack Fawcett, who slipped into eternity the other day, quite in a hurry, and with scarcely a week's notice. The " Great- Non-suited," is a well told anecdote of an English Cabinet Minister, who was convicted of smuggling the materials of a new Court suit from France. FRASER' S MAGAZINE. There is an interesting article in " Regina" for this month on the " Newspaper Press of Scotland," which we shall leave our sturdy friends north of the Tweed to decide upon after their own fashion. The " Anatomy of Gaining," Dissection V., is an expose of the transactions which nightly take place at Crockford's—the regularly es tablished " Hell of hells." There is a great deal of very forcible reasoning in the article, on what would be the effect of abolishing all laws relating to debtor and creditor. The subject is a most important one, and, we are persuaded, one which, notwithstanding its; general importance, is very little understood. The " Yellowplusi► Correspondence" is continued in this Number, and sustains the favourable impression which the first chapters made upon us. " Our Club at Paris" is very dull, though there are here aiid there some specimens of very amusing wag_ gery. Altogether the May Number of Fraser is more than usually heavy. TAIt'S MAGAZINE. Tait opens this month with a powerful tale, from the pen of John I3anim, called the " Irish Reaper." The character of Davy Ryan is a master-piece of vigourous painting. The incidents are few, but they are feelingly and eloquently worked up ; and the whole is equal to any production of the same length by the author of the " O'Hara Family"—even in his best days. The " May Meeting of the Society of Friends," by William Howitt, contains several passages which we regret we have not space to transfer to our columns. It is the fullest exposition that we ever met with, of the religious government of the Quakers, male and female ; and it contains so much that is entirely new to us, that we imagine it cannot fail to excite a good deal of general interest. The review of the last volume of " Lockhart's Life of Scott," is interesting from the fund of anecdote which the writer has at command, independently of its great literary merit. A mong the un important details we are informed t ' l e ta m t cbouttt notiia da very narrow head for a man of his size, and required a smaller hat than even little men. His head with great elevation—which, however, the busts rather exagge rate—had not corresponding breadth." The conclusion of the Review ascends from these interesting trivialties to the dignity of lofty criticism :__ " Differing so far from the biographer in many debatable points, and disapproving of the spirit hi which he has written much of these .Me_ molt's, we have the more satisfaction in cordially subscribing to his ge neral criticism, and just and delicate appreciation of the literary merits of Sir 'Walter Scott. In Scott's voluminous itnaginative works, while we can conceive something loftier to desire, we find nothing to condemn, cave indeed latterly vast surplusage —which is a thing apart—unwin_ nowed wheat, so sent to market on calculations of pounds, shillings, and pence—nothing to condemn; and how much to approve, admire, love, enjoy, feed upon, and grow with what we feed on ! Yet there seems a tendency at present to depreciate Scott's genius for which it battles us to find a good cause. There is but one Shakspeare, and we leave him alone, enshrined—unwilling either to hear his name profaned, or to see other men lessened by idle comparisons. The growing dispo sition to undervalue Scott tempts us to proclaim the belief, that he not merely the first of prose fictionists, but equal to them all taken to gether—nat in him we find combined the elevation and delicate imagi nation of Cervantes, the sagacity of Le Sage, the pathos of Richard son, the inim table truthfulness and humour of Fielding, the shrewd ness a7ul comic power of .Smohen, the exquisite simplicity and tender of Goldsmith, and even the. will and luxuriant fancy of Radcliffe. There remain' IRA Godwin, in his Caleb Williams,' and Mrs. Inch bald in Nature an„ .Art; to carry off a laurel which S,:ott did not seek to gather. There may I.)e other fictoni,ts who, with equal o p we ns of imagination, liveliness of fancy, fertility of invention, maglic faci lity of touch, and all.embracing sympathies, ,hall bring a higher ° ln. losophy to the sphere of iomance ; but they have not yet peared, and we know not where to look for them — not, certainly, in the modern intense School. If we ever there chance on any indication of more expanded thought and loftier aspiration in works of fiction, we miss the thousand other charms and graces of Scott's pen ; and arc constrained to take to his men and women as they are, in pref er enc e t o th e f reez i ng o r ex tr a vagant Wall-- ties of those whose aims may be hi:;her, but who lack power to strike Want of intensity is often objected to Scott—and systematic intensit of high moral purpose, may be wanting ; but his critics would, we}' apprehend, express themselves more accurately if they described th e defect of which they coMplain, as want of abandonment. If passion b meant, we know not where, lathe entire scope of prose fiction, to 100 for that highly sublimated and concentrated intensity of feeling, which_ supeelor to the weakness of abandonment , ' dies, and makes no sign,' it not in his 10,,Sionate pages. No, pathos, no exaltation, no exquisite n intensity of sentinit and of imagination, in the last chapters o( Waverley'—in Kenilwoft/l'—in ' The Bride of Lammermoor' --0 Rebecca the Jewess—in Minna Troil—in Clara Mowbray—in k Deans, her father, and her sister—in Old Mortality ?' c arr y literary heresy so far as to be fervent admirers of Scott's inferior works—. his metrical romances. If Chaucer was a great poet, then there Inn s ' be a niche for Scott by the side of the Father of English Poetry. Th ere is close resemblance in the distinctive features of their genius ; th e , same freshness, heartiness, sagacity, humour, clearness, and unrivallcu command over the picturesque." The " Glimpses of the Western Corner of Fairy Land," remind us a good deal of Leigh Hunt's style. It has served to recall many. a fair vision of our childhood—for whets young, we were a devout believer in the existence and the dominion of Fairies. There is no lack of poetry Number, and what is better still, of poetry worth reading' Tait, we see, has joined the rest of the booksellers in cry: in;.; out against Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill ; but his article on the subject is the only poor affair in the M a y Number of his Magazine. in this MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The best portion of Mr. Reynold's imitation of the Pickwick Papers this month, is his story entitled the " Public Accuser," which is told in an earnest and spirited style without any attempt at exaggeration. He had far better, however, rely on his own powers, and leave " Pick wick" in the hands of his original creator. The contro versy upon the " Devil's Walk," is now brought to a c lose, and we are glad of it, for Mr. Barker has made far toe much of what is scarcely worth discussing. What matters it whether Southey or Coleridge had the greatest share in the compositiGn of this half-forgotten jeu d'esprit? " Portraits from the Peerage" is a temperately written memoir of Lord Lansdowne. THE iIioNTYLYTAT MA GAZINE. Maxwell. This periodical is conducted in a most f o top ffc ic ns s itc ,, T rr o , e br spirit. An article on that least exciting a Law of Primogeniture," commences as follol•;'s "A t time when the rude licentious hand of wild den;"ral is at work to undermine our n a ti ona l liberties," Sc. - and the writer waxing wrother, as his imagination colO c more heated, thus proceeds, in " A louder still and a wilder strain." One of the acts of the desperate and unworthy f a ction• now absolutely swaying the destinies of the empire, 11 . 35 been to raise a cry against the laws which regulate the 11 " heritance of landed property. For this species of property being in its nature the firm base of every staple Govero ment, they have thought that these laws, once abrogated, a general dissolution of the several orders in the Sta t ?, would be readily effected, and their purposes answered. A stranger might be led to suppose from this passq ° that the majority of the House of Commons, the Wh ls- Nobility of England, and four-fifths of the intelligent in habitants of the British empire, were so many younger sons, alike envious of, and dependant upon, Conservative bonetY' This would be making a sad blunder. The Liberal s t° have a `° stake in the country," sufficiently important ~a° render them by no means indifferent to the stability of it s best institutions. " Philosophical Radicals," and the " House of Commons," are articles quite as preposter h : in argument, and nearly as intemperate in language. ,;v• is not a Law, but an Ultra Tory Magazine, valuable the for its abridgment of the Statutes, and its summary 0 ' - Bills before Parliament. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. We have only just received this Magazine, and faits been able, therefore, to glance but very cursorily t contents. The two ablest articles in the Number -530 far, at least, as we may venture on a judgment front a hast Y . perusal —appear to be those on Scott and Lord Brougham, the last of which is a vigorous portrait, drawn in no un friendly spirit, but at the same time without any attempt at undue flattery. The writer very justly accedes to his Lordship a rank foremost among the most eminent statesmen of the age, and glances at one or two of his peculiarities frankly and temperately. The cha racter of Scott is pourtrayed with equal manliGess but the writer is in error when he says that the grOt novelist had little or no command over the pathetic. Never had English author more of tenderness —though h e was not always making a parade of it—in his compositions, The Essay entitled " Manners," is a sprightly sketch, from the life ; an d th a t on th e " I r i s h Church," is s° un and temperate in politics. LITERATURE. RECOLLECTIONS OF CAULINCOUR T • Two Vols. CoMum, London, 1838. From the melodramatic manner in which this work of out, and the loose, th rea db are c h aracter o f so me Of it° , anecdotes, we are strongly disposed to doubt it's authentif city, and to re gar d it as t h e mere i ngen i ous compilation the of some practised b oo k ma k er . W e may b e m i sta k en , an" hut' if may be rea ll y w h at i t pro f esses to b e, genu i ne ; ho; if so, it has been produced in a form least likely to irnP ra % this fact on th e cons id erat i on o f i t ' s rea d ers. It commences in this hack n i e d f as hi on : —A n i nva lid l a d y—w h et h er youn g or old she does not inform us—happens to be taking ", solitary stroll, one fine morning, among " the sh a t diest recesse s o f t h ose l ove l y woo dl an d s • wlnc" , skirt Plombiers, on the side near the Stanislas Fate, t ain," with her " thoughts dreamingly wander' n 7 back to a g l or i ous per i o d o f t h e past, " when sudden l y ', Jus t as she is i n th e m id st o f h er rever i e, up comes a ge ntle , man whose " figure was slender an d pli an t," an d who h ad , an " an air o f yout h i n sp i te o f h i s premature wrinkles and his pale and a tt enuate d countenance. " This pensive 311 interesting stranger turns out to be Caulincourt, Duke 01 Vicenza, grand Equerry to that very hero, the recollection of whose glori es was j ust at that moment engrossing ths thoughts of the solitary gentlewoman. An acquaintanc e ' s immediately formc'd between two enthusiasts for NaPal e°9 ' which reminds us by its sudden fervor of that formed he" tween the two strangers in Canning's Robber s , one of wh oln it may be re mem b ere d, says to the other, " a sudtl e , P „ thought strik es me , l et us swear an eternal friendsh ip The consequence of this impromptu intimacy b e twee n Caulincourt and the invalid lady is, that the former relates f to the latter, the history of his past life, with w hich, ° course, are copiously interwoven anecdotes of N a poleo n : the Emp eror Al exan d er, F ouche, the Bourbons, and o f all those great public characters who have figured in Fran ce and elsewhere, during the last twenty years. M ail of th ese anec d otes are certainly new to us ; hut there are many also that we have seen b e fore ; such as that of Frogere the actor, who is here made to sal to the Emperor of Russia, " If I were not Frogere' should wish to be Alexander." Now, it is not at all I ' l° ,l that C a uli ncour t ever re l ated this anecdote, for it is as 0,',1 as the hill s , an d we ll k nown to have been recorded o f n'" Vestris, who gave precisely the same answer to the Ki of France. Again, the Duke is made to tell a s t°rry about the Emperor Alexander having left his cloak '" pledge w ith a s l e d ge -d r i ver who had driven hull incognito to the palace, and whom he had not the ine ea9 f of paying—which very story has been going the r ounds ° the Journals within the last year, with this only differenc e :. that instead o f b e i ng to ld o f Alexander, it has been told '3' his successor, Nicholas. These, together with many grant mis-stat ements, such as where the battle of EY'l ali is represented as h av i ng been gained by the French, when it is well kn own i t was a drawn battle, and if anything' : de cided i n f avour o f the Russians,strongly incline us to the belief that Caulincourt has had little or nothing to do with the.se anecdotal reminiscences ; that the " invalid lady of S tan"- las Fountain," is a mere phantom, like Horam, the relator of th e " Tales of the Genii ;" that, in short, the book i s a mere compilation, a sort of anecdotal omnium gallierun!' for the materials of which the ingenious manufacturer is indebted to those shoals of memoirs and reminiscences of Napoleon and his times, with which the French press has been teeming ever since the period of the restoration of th e Bourbons. We are (*lad to see from the provincial Papers that throughout the country steps are in progress to celebrate the ensuing' Coronation in a way becoming both the loyalty and chivalry of the nation; public entertainments, in which the poor Are not to be forgotten, balls, and other amusements, are announced,